Blog | Turning pledges into projects: Enablers for climate action at COP30 and beyond

By Elena Remp and Florentia Loizides   With COP30 on the horizon, the discourse on global climate finance has moved from ambition to delivery. While the Baku-to-Belém Roadmap and the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) laid the groundwork for a new architecture of climate action, progress at COP30 will hinge on cultivating the right enabling environment […]

Blog | COP29: Tying it all together – Outcomes on this year’s summit

By Victoria Verdesoto-Phothirath In the run up to COP29, E Co. consultants wrote a series of briefings and reflections discussing what was at stake for progress on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG), Article 6, the Global Goal on Adaptation and Loss and Damage. We share our insights, response and takeaways below. The NCQG falls […]

Blog | Mitigation

Two key areas to accelerate decarbonisation efforts in the run-up to COP29 are the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and the operationalisation of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Ratcheting up ambition The upcoming third submission of updated NDCs presents a crucial opportunity for signatories to the Paris Agreement to demonstrate increased climate ambition. […]